WORKCAMP PROGRAM 2019 - Volunteers for Peace Vietnam (VPV) Ho Chi Minh city Program
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Volunteers for Peace Vietnam (VPV)
Ho Chi Minh city Program
WORKCAMP PROGRAM 2019
INTRODUCTION
Volunteers For Peace Vietnam (VPV) is a non-profit, voluntary organization founded in 2005 with
the aim to promote voluntary service as a mean of cultural and educational exchange among people,
for peace and friendship, and as an approach to address social problems.
VPV hosts international volunteers from different countries and places them in suitable projects
depending on the interest of the volunteers and the needs of local communities. VPV also brings
the opportunities for Vietnamese to join voluntary projects around the world. By joining our
programs, volunteers will experience inter-cultural living and working environment and have a
chance to help those in needs.
Over the past 10 years VPV has welcomed over 4,500 international volunteers from over 30
different countries. VPV is working in various locations in Vietnam, including Hanoi Capital and
Ho Chi Minh City. VPV offers programs for individual volunteers and group volunteers, for
duration from 1 week to 1 year. Our projects cover areas of education, social welfare, environment
and community development, public health and medical support, cultural heritage preservation and
youth action.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
1. Insurance
VPV does not provide any kind of insurance. It is volunteers’ responsibility to buy insurance that
covers the whole period of his/her stay in Vietnam.
2. Personal Transportation/Excursion
Each volunteer is responsible for arranging their transportation to/from the meeting point of the
camp at their expenses. VPV does not cover transport, leisure activities or food outside of the
project.
3. Application Requirements
VEF and copy of passport
4. Leader
VPV always has its own staff who coordinates the project from orientation until final evaluation.
Besides that at most project, there are also some local volunteers who work alongside with
international volunteers to make sure the group has good atmosphere and dynamic.
LIST OF WORKCAMPS (May-December 2019).
Number of
Camp code Placement Date Theme Age
volunteers
Happy organic
VPVS194F farming- Ho Chi 29.04-06.05.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 07
Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS195P 20.05-01.06.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 07
Ho Chi Minh
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Education camp for
under-privileged
VPVS196E 03.06-16.06.2019 KIDS/YOUTH/EDU 18+ 07
students-Ho Chi
Minh
Happy organic
VPVS196F farming- Ho Chi 10.06-17.06.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 07
Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS196P 17.06-29.06.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 07
Ho Chi Minh
Social Smile
VPVS196R restaurant for poor 24.06-01.07.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 07
people-Ho Chi Minh
Education camp for
under-privileged
VPVS197E 01.07-13.07.2019 KIDS/YOUTH/EDU 18+ 08
students-Ho Chi
Minh
Social Smile
VPVS197R restaurant for poor 08.07-15.07.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 08
people-Ho Chi Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda-
VPVS197P 15.07-27.07.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 08
Ho Chi Minh
Happy organic
VPVS197F farming- Ho Chi 22.07-29.07.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 08
Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS197P 29.07-10.08.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 08
Ho Chi Minh
Education camp for
under-privileged
VPVS198E 05.08-18.08.2019 KIDS/YOUTH/EDU 18+ 09
students-Ho Chi
Minh
Happy organic
VPVS198F farming- Ho Chi 05.08-12.08.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 09
Minh
Social Smile
VPVS198R restaurant for poor 12.08-24.08.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
people-Ho Chi Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS198P 19.08-31.08.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
Ho Chi Minh
Happy organic
VPVS198F farming- Ho Chi 19.08-26.08.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 09
Minh
Social Smile
VPVS198R restaurant for poor 26.08-07.09.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
people-Ho Chi Minh
Education camp for
VPVS199E 03.09-16.09.2019 KIDS/YOUTH/EDU 18+ 09
under-privileged
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students-Ho Chi
Minh
Happy organic
VPVS199F farming- Ho Chi 03.09-10.09.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 09
Minh
Social Smile
VPVS199R restaurant for poor 09.09-21.09.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
people-Ho Chi Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS199P 16.09-28.09.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
Ho Chi Minh
Happy organic
VPVS199F farming- Ho Chi 16.09-23.09.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 09
Minh
Social Smile
VPVS199R restaurant for poor 23.09-30.09.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
people-Ho Chi Minh
Education camp for
under-privileged
VPVS1910E 07.10-20.10.2019 KIDS/YOUTH/EDU 18+ 07
students-Ho Chi
Minh
Happy organic
VPVS1910F farming- Ho Chi 14.10-21.10.2019 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 07
Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS1910P 21.10-02.11.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 07
Ho Chi Minh
Education camp for
under-privileged
VPVS1911E 04.11-17.11.2019 KIDS/YOUTH/EDU 18+ 07
students-Ho Chi
Minh
Social Smile
VPVS1911R restaurant for poor 11.11-18.11.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 07
people-Ho Chi Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS1911P 18.11-30.11.2019 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 07
Ho Chi Minh
Education camp for
under-privileged
VPVS1912E 02.12-15.12.2019 KIDS/YOUTH/EDU 18+ 07
students-Ho Chi
Minh
Ky Quang Pagoda -
VPVS1912P 23.12.19-04.01.20 KIDS/SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
Ho Chi Minh
Social Smile
VPVS1912R restaurant for poor 23.12-30.12.2019 SOCI/MAN 18+ 09
people-Ho Chi Minh
Happy organic
VPVS1912F farming- Ho Chi 30.12.19-06.01.20 ENV/MAN/EDU 18+ 09
Minh
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Projects description
Education/Teaching camp for under-privileged students
On the changing of society & economic in Vietnam in the past recently years,
knowing one foreign language is an advance to find a job opportunity. For
many under-privileged students, the chance to improve a foreign language,
especially with a native teacher from that language is really difficult and
rarely. The aim of the project is to help under-privileged students & children
IN HO CHI MINH city a chance to improve foreigner language speaking &
listening skill and to develop their communication skill on that language.
There are 6 languages offered on the project: English, French, German,
Japanese, Chinese & Korean. All courses are free.
The local students after joining that project will have more opportunity to find
a better job, while children improving their foreign language background.
The participants through this project will also have chance to exchange
culture with local student/children and understand the challenges on the life
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of children/students in Vietnam.
The language center was established in 2010 by sir Thich Nhuan Tam, a
monk from a local Buddhist pagoda in GoVap district, Ho Chi Minh city, in
order to support young people and students who are under-privileged to have
chance to learn foreign language properly. With his active dedication &
contribution and many individual sponsors & volunteers, thousand of
students & children have chance to learn a foreign langue for free.
There are 6 language classes: French, English, German, Korean, Japanese,
Chinese (From Basic/Beginning to Advance). Center opens from 8 AM to 5
PM everyday. On Saturday and Sunday, there is a class for pupils (from 6
years old to 15 years old).
Teachers are international and local volunteer teachers.
At the moment, there are 50 volunteer teachers and about 1.000 students.
After finishing course, most of students can find a good job.
Schedule: Volunteers will work from 9AM-3PM, 5 days per week. If they have
schedule at week-end, they will have Mon & Tue free.
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W: volunteers will spend time with the students and help to improve their language
skill, organize games and other activities for them.
S: Youth and pupils in Vietnam
A: VPV’ Dormitory in Sai Gon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on bunk-bed with mattress.
Showers and toilets are available. WIFI free at volunteer house. Breakfast and
dinner will be prepared by volunteers. Lunch is provided at the project.
L: Go Vap district, Ho Chi Minh city (or Sai Gon- Southern part of Vietnam).
T: Tan Son Nhat airport (SGN), 20 minutes by taxi/bus to volunteer house
Q: interest and motivation working with youth & pupils.
LA: Vietnamese day, International day, self-organized city tour or excursions, etc.
PF: 250 USD or 230 EUR
Social welfare restaurant/ Social smile restaurant
Social welfare Restaurant was inaugurated in Oct 2012 by HCMC Charity
Foundation in order to offer special meal with privileged price for poor
students, immigrant & local workers in the area of HCMC. The foundation
does fundraising to have enough budget, in order to be able to sell a
quality meal with the cost of 2000 VND (about less than 10 USD cent).
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Volunteers will involve in project activities in order to make a good meals
for poor people. If volunteer has experience on cooking, they can join for
the cooking job. In the most cases, volunteers will help for preparing food,
washing vegetables, set up the table and other works.
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The restaurant located at the central of HCMC. The project also has some
new project locations in the nearby are in central part of HCM. Volunteer
will involve on a charity project and it help them to understand a part of the
life in HCMC where the life is changing very fast and there is a big gap
between people in the same city.
To get project, it takes about 30 minutes by bus from home.
-Volunteers must be 18 years old or more.
-Volunteers should have motivation to work on this project: Hard working,
enthusiasm or pay attention.
-If volunteers has experience on cooking or was chef, they are very
welcomed
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-Volunteers’ tasks are mainly helping project by preparing food, washing
vegetables or set up table.
-When begin opening for buyers, volunteers’ tasks will be likely to bring
dishes to eating table and serve.
-After finishing, volunteers would be cleaning the tables, washing dishes…
Working time: 7:30-13:30, from Monday to Friday
W: volunteers will work at restaurant to help for food preparation and serving at
table to support poor students, immigrants & local manual workers.
S: Disadvantaged/poor people in Vietnam
A: VPV’ Dormitory in Sai Gon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on bunk-bed with mattress.
Showers and toilets are available. WIFI free at volunteer house. Breakfast and
dinner will be prepared by volunteers. Lunch is provided at the project.
L: City central, Ho Chi Minh city (or Sai Gon- Southern part of Vietnam).
T: Tan Son Nhat airport (SGN), 20 minutes by taxi/bus to volunteer house
Q: interest and motivation working so support people in difficult situation
LA: Vietnamese day, International day, self-organized city tour or excursions, etc.
PF: 250 USD or 230 EUR for 2 weeks/ 180 USD or 160 EUR for 1 week
Ky Quang Pagoda
10Ky Quang Pagoda was built in the early part of
the 20th Century in 1924 and is quite famous in
Ho Chi Minh City. The pagoda is now a place of
charity for unlucky children and also helps treat
diseases. Now, the pagoda is taking care and
bringing up more than 100 children in the South
of Vietnam. The children here have unfortunate
backgrounds as many have been abandoned by their parents and relatives. Every
few months, the monks find a new baby left in front of the pagoda gate. The head
monk sometimes receives phone calls from hospitals requesting him to take in
abandoned babies. At the moment, about 100 children are living in the Pagoda,
their ages ranging from 5 days old to 40 years old. 60 of these are
orphans/abbandoned that are suffering from cerebral-palsy, blindness or Down's
syndrome.At present, about 30-40 local children have a chance to study for free at
Ky Quang as some local teachers teach Vietnamese for them in the morning.
11W: volunteers will spend time with the children and help to improve their English,
organize games and other activities for them. Volunteers will also do some manual
work such as cleaning, renovation, etc depend on the need of orphanage/pagoda.
Volunteers will get closer to the children’s life and try to build up a wider horizon for
the children and encourage them to learn better for the brighter future.
There are a possibility to support children with disability on the disabled children
room.
S: Disadvantaged children in Vietnam
A: VPV’ Dormitory in Sai Gon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on bunk-bed with mattress.
Showers and toilets are available. WIFI free at volunteer house. Breakfast and
dinner will be prepared by volunteers. Lunch is provided at the project.
L: Go Vap district, Ho Chi Minh city (or Sai Gon- Southern part of Vietnam).
T: Tan Son Nhat airport (SGN), 20 minutes by taxi/bus to volunteer house
Q: interest and motivation working with children in difficult situation
12LA: Self-organized city tour or excursions.
PF: 250 USD or 230 EUR
Happy Organic farming
The aim of the program is to provide Friendly environment for Volunteer and having the
chance for cultural exchange with local people while learning about techniques to operate
a professional organic farm.
Organic farming is a cultivation system based on the natural biological cycle of the
ecosystem, biodiversity that suit climatic conditions and local soil, combined with
traditional farming science and technology; without the usage of synthetic chemicals (such
as plant protection products, growth regulators, chemical fertilizers …) in order to create
products that are suitable to the benefit of people and the environment, protecting the
well-being of man, land and ecosystems.
In order to bring healthy product to customer, the core members of this project has been
working strenuously to reach their dream.
13After 4 years of effort doing research, investment, and standardizing the process of
growing vegetables organically, the current vegetable garden is now nearly 5000 m2, in
out-skirt district of HCMC, has become reach a stable output of over 10 kinds of leaf
vegetables and some kind of fruits.
The farm’s products are grown in natural harmony by re-balancing the ecological
environment for cultivation of crops. Pest control by using natural traditional methods
(which are empirically proven in the scientific assessment to be effective) and in particular,
absolute compliance to the :6 NOs:
NO pesticides & herbicides
14NO planting on soil and water contaminated with agricultural chemicals (*)
NO growth regulators
NO chemical fertilizers
NO of genetically modified seeds (GM seeds)
NO preservatives
In this farm, the worker use a high standard technology based on software to ensure about
the quality and capacity of the products. The routine tasks on this farm:
1. Check plants regularly to find ecosystem pattern of the land
2. Field sanitation and plants healthy
3. Planning the seasonal crops
4. Use many species for intercropping, crop rotation as needed
5. Create environment for development of beneficial insects (predators)
6. Crops trap, pheromones trap
157. Measures for expelling insects (done synchronously and before the pests lay eggs)
8. Shielding vegetables in rows, or a greenhouse, membrane
9. Use resistant varieties
10. Apply insecticides of biological origin
Beside the main activities about farming, The owners of this farm also operate Education
activities for children: On weekends, instead of going to the places of entertainment,
parents can also add a fresh, educational attraction for children at Happy vegi’s organic
garden. The children will have fun activities in the garden, learning about beneficial insects
and harmful ones, how farmersplant and care for vegetables … With kindergartens, the
children’s visit is a way to help them aquire more knowledge outside of books, helping
them to understand the value of the product and the labor of the farmer.
In addition, children will learn through experiencing work of farmer themselves by taking
care of a potted organic plant through the instruction given by us.
Volunteers must be 18 years old minimum. Volunteers must show eagerness, the ability
to maintain motivation and reliability. Related to this, volunteers need to show assiduous
attitude and initiative when working on the farm. Most importantly, volunteers need to be
friendly and patient, making the good relationship with the local workers.
Volunteers will be responsible for completing tasks assigned by the manager of the farm.
The general tasks would be:
- seeding the new vegetable on the farm
- spraying the farm with special kind of water
- weeding the un-useful weed.
- plan the soil to expand the farm, creating new vegetable beds
……
Moreover, the volunteers can have the chance to communicate with Vietnamese kids for
showing the the works when they come for education about organic farm
16Volunteers are also encouraged to try and establish new ideas for improving the quality
of the product on this farm.
The timetable will be given on arrival with volunteers working 5 days per week. Working
hours from 8:00am to 11:00am and 1:30pm to 4:00 pm, from Mon to Fri. Volunteers will
work around 30 hours per week on the farm
S: Organic farming/ Agriculture/ Environment
A: VPV’ Dormitory in Sai Gon. Shared rooms. Sleeping on bunk-bed with mattress.
Showers and toilets are available. WIFI free at volunteer house. Breakfast and dinner will
be prepared by volunteers. Lunch is provided at the project.
L: Ho Chi Minh city (or Sai Gon- Southern part of Vietnam).
T: Tan Son Nhat airport (SGN), 20 minutes by taxi/bus to volunteer house
Q: interest and motivation working on agriculture & environment filed
LA:Self-organized city tour or excursions, etc.
PF: 250 USD or 230 EUR for 2 weeks; 180 USD or 160 EUR for 1 week.
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